Nobel Prize

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005   Editors: Per Ahlberg, Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Per I. Arvidsson, Uppsala University, Jonas Förare, Eva Krutmeijer and Malin Lindgren, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and Illustrations: Typoform Printing: Katarinatryck AB, 2005 Copyright © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2005 P.O. Box…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001                   The word chiral derives from the Greek word ceir (cheir), meaning hand. Our hands are chiral – the right hand is a mirror image of the left – as are most of life’s molecules such as (R)-alanine and (S)-alanine,…

Exploring the new RNA world by Thomas R. Cech1989 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry This article was published on 3 December 2004. Not too long ago, most people considered RNA to be just a disposable copy of the really important nucleic acid, DNA. It is the double helix of DNA, after all, that shows up…

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h Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Lars Thelander, ledamot av , ledamot av Nobelkommittén för kemi, December 10, 2006. Professor Lars Thelander presenterar Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar, Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi belönas för att han lyckats skapa en molekylmodell av…

French 10 octobre 2000 a décidé d’attribuer le Prix Nobel de Chimie de l’année 2000 conjointement à Alan J. HeegerUniversity of California at Santa Barbara, Californie, Etats-Unis, Alan G. MacDiarmidUniversité de Pennsylvanie, Philadelphie, Etats-Unis, Hideki ShirakawaUniversité de Tsukuba, Japon «pour la découverte et le développement des polymères conducteurs» Des plastiques qui conduisent l’électricité Nous pensions…

Sidney Altman and Thomas Cech have independently studied how the genetic code is transferred from DNA to RNA. They knew, however, that part of the genetic information is not required and must be removed from RNA before the RNA molecule can be utilized by the cell. While searching for the catalysts of RNA maturation, Altman…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005             Carbon compounds of different shapes and sizes build up all life on earth, but they can also be produced artificially. This is called organic synthesis and is central in chemistry. Here molecules are tailored and built in the service of mankind. The…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001               The substances used as the starting point for these syntheses are in general not chiral. The trick is to make the product chiral. This is done using a chiral catalyst molecule. Suppose we compare this molecule with a left hand. A…